Syndesmanthus. ] ERICACKEA (Brown). 375 
oblong, cuneate at the spurless base ; ovary glabrous; stigma rather 
large, capitate. 
Coast Region : Bredasdorp Div.; Vogel Vley, 150 ft., Schlechter, 10481! 
The glutinous matter upon the dried flowers of this species must be removed 
by soaking in ether before they can be dissected. I have also seen a specimen 
bearing the same number localized as having been collected at Zeekoe Vley, but 
this is an error for Vogel Vley. 
3. 8. ciliatus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 707); 6-8 in. high, 
much branched; branchlets slender, puberulous, soon becoming 
glabrous, brown ; leaves 3-nate, spreading or somewhat deflexed, 
mostly shorter than the internodes, 1-11 lin. long, very thiek and 
subterete or turgid, obtuse, glabrous, or when very young slightly 
puberulous, hairy on the petiole, flowers shortly pedicellate, in 
axillary and terminal clusters of 3-6, crowded together at the ends 
of the branchlets ; bracts subequal, 1 lin. long, linear, densely ciliate, 
very rarely coming away with the flower, but remaining upon the 
persistent base of the pedicel; calyx about * lin. long, clavately 
pear-shaped, coriaceous, pallid and 4-nerved below; tube 4-angled 
below, having 4 small puberulous tubercles on the flattened faces at 
about the middle, otherwise glabrous, upper part twice as broad, 
with 4 angles at the sinuses between the teeth alternating with those 
on the lower part of the tube; teeth connivent, scarcely half as long 
as the tube, broadly triangular, acute, somewhat rigid, grooved down 
the back, glabrous, very shortly ciliate ; corolla 14 lin. long, narrowly 
suburceolate above, tapering into a slender tube below, glabrous, the 
exserted part about as long as the calyx, white ex Klotzsch ; lobes 4, 
about as long as broad, erect or slightly connivent, deltoid-ovate, 
subacute ; anthers much exserted, basifixed, oblong-linear, spurless ; 
ovary glabrous; stigma simple. Macrolinum ciliatum, Klotasch in 
Linnea, xii. 2438, 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; Babylons Tower Mountain and between it 
and Caledon, Ecklon § Zeyher, Zeyher ! hills near Bot River, 700 ft., Bolus, 
5449 ! 
4. §. squarrosus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 707) ; a small and 
apparently somewhat flat-topped shrublet 5-10 in. high; branchlets 
densely puberulous or subtomentose, whitish or pale grey; leaves 
3-nate, varying from very spreading to erect, mostly shorter than 
the internodes, or the terminal imbricate, 3-14 lin. long, linear, 
obtuse, rather turgid, straight or recurved, glabrous, or more or less 
adpressed-pilose with long hairs when young; petiole ciliate with 
long hairs; flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate, 2-9 in 
axillary and terminal elusters racemosely crowded along the branch- 
lets ; bracts unequal, minute, the middle one rarely more than 
1 lin. long, linear or narrowly deltoid, ciliate with long hairs ; calyx 
rather more than % lin. long, pear-shaped, pubescent all over with 
very fine short ascending or subadpressed hairs ; tube obconiec, pallid, 
with 8 darker nerves ; teeth as long as or rather longer than the 
